Review: Mindhunters (2004)

"For seven elite profilers, finding a serial killer is a process of elimination. Their own." Are you a stupid pawn of the movie industry? Do you like to spend money on shiny objects? Then Mindhunters is the movie is for you.

Plot summary: On a remote island, the FBI has a training program for their psychological profiling division, called "Mindhunters", used to track down serial killers. The training goes horribly wrong, however, when a group of seven young agents discover that one of them is a serial killer, and is setting about slaying the others. Can the few that are left figure out who the killer is in time? Source

Some spoilers are found below, so you can either read on and learn why you shouldn't see this movie, you can trust me and avoid it, or you can see it and then read on and hit yourself in the head with a closed fist when you agree with me. Your call. You can scroll down and see my ratings of plot and soundtrack etc below if you like.

Anyway, have you seen the movie "Deep Blue Sea"? Its the one about genetically modified sharks who get loose and eat the main characters one after another. As I watched Mindhunters last night I began to draw comparisons to "Deep Blue Sea." Both movies are staged in isolated areas, both movies involve lavish death scenes, both movies have plots that won't challenge you (correction, they will challenge you but only in the "this makes no sense" portion of the brain), both movies have LL Cool J, both are directed by Renny Harlin, and both have big stars who die suddenly without warning.

In "Deep Blue Sea" I thought it was great when Samuel Jackson's character got eaten by the sharks barely a third into the movie. Going in you are thinking, big star, he makes it until the end of the movie. So as a plot device killing him early was a novel idea. That was my initial impression however, then I saw the rest of "Deep Blue Sea" and I began to suspect that Mr. Jackson knew what a craptastic movie he was in and demanded he be cut out.

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